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Please give me some tips to choose right web hosting. vps or shared?

Note: Please do not post your hosting referral links here..Because i choosed the host Friends, I'm going to host a website. Planned to make it a social website. Now the hosting i choosed provides unlimited shared hosting for $70 per year and Virtual private server(VPS) hosting for $12 per month. Shared plan comes with unlimited features(Everything). But VPS comes with following. Root Access- Available Disk Space-10 GB Guaranteed RAM-128 MB Burstable to RAM-256 MB Bandwidth / Month-100 GB Linux OS-Cent OS Dedicated IP address-1 Easy upgrades-Available 24/7 support- available Self-managed VPS- available Monthly Price-$12 ADD-ON FEATURES: Cpanel- $10/month Fantastico + RV Skin-$4/month Additional IP-$2/month Extra Bandwidth (Per GB)-$0.50/month Daily backups-$5/month 128 MB-$5/month 256 MB-$10/month 512 MB-$15/month 1024 MB-$25/month Now my question can i use VPS hosting without cpanel? can i choose it? Is this VPS plan is good? Are is there any VPS plan cheaper than this?

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1. According to your requirements you could go for a shared hosting which will cost you around £5/m and if you need less space like 5GB per site than even its more cheaper like £1.66 /m. try http://www.sky.uk.net here you can get both Linux and Windows hosting on same price. Thanks John
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4. You can manage your site without cpanel but it's tough to do because you will have to do everything manually. If you have no idea to manually create databases, create email accounts etc, you should def get cPanel with your VPS. Why don't you just start with shared web hosting, see where your site goes and if you start seeing traffic and income, you can move to VPS. Keep in mind, Unlimited doesn't mean everything is unlimited. They have limits. I use ChimeHost http://www.chimehost.com and my host has tons of limits when it comes of type of content, size of content etc.
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